Hi,
I am running into the same issue.
When starting the system with anacron, the /etc/cron.daily/apt may block
the whole cron.daily jobs.
My proposal is to detect if /etc/cron.daily/apt has been started by cron
or just by anacron.
The attached patch should fix this by checking (by using pst
Package: apt
Version: 0.9.7.9+deb7u1
Followup-For: Bug #600262
Hello,
Another reason to modify the behaviour of this random running is that this
script
locks all the scripts following alphabetically in /etc/cron.daily/.
I known no reason for this.
So I suggest that a structure as below should b
Hi,
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Teodor MICU wrote:
> Ok, I see. So the first version of the patch avoids the first
> problematic time. For the second problematic time I could prepare a
> new patch to:
> [..]
> 2) check for the current hour and if less or equal to 7 to also
> execute "random_
Hi,
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> There ae 2 problematic times. The first is 6:25 without anacron
> installed. The second is 7:35 with anacron installed.
Ok, I see. So the first version of the patch avoids the first
problematic time. For the second problematic ti
Teodor MICU writes:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Goswin von Brederlow
> wrote:
>>> Please apply this patch to avoid 'random_sleep' if the script was started
>>> by anacron.
>>
>> But if the system stays up all night then the jobs are also started by
>> anacron. This time at the p
Hi,
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>> Please apply this patch to avoid 'random_sleep' if the script was started by
>> anacron.
>
> But if the system stays up all night then the jobs are also started by
> anacron. This time at the problematic time though.
I don't kn
Teodor writes:
> Package: apt
> Version: 0.8.6
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: patch
>
> Hi,
>
> Currently a 'random_sleep' function is implemented in /etc/cron.daily/apt to
> avoid
> a DoS on the mirrors. However, on desktop and workstation systems the script
> is not
> executed at 6:xx in the mo
Package: apt
Version: 0.8.6
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Hi,
Currently a 'random_sleep' function is implemented in /etc/cron.daily/apt to
avoid
a DoS on the mirrors. However, on desktop and workstation systems the script is
not
executed at 6:xx in the morning but later at random times after b
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